Events Calendar

The Summer Public Service Program provides stipends to rising 2Ls and 3Ls working in a low-paying or unpaid summer internships in nonprofit, government, and legislative offices. Justice Center staff will provide information about the SPSP for summer 2023, including eligibility, funding, and how to apply, and answer students’ questions.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/01/75791/

This year marks 80 years since the Supreme Court ruled on Korematsu v. United States. Fred Korematsu along with tens of thousands of other Japanese Americans were incarcerated during WWII. In 1983, a district court in Northern California cleared Korematsu of any wrongdoing and he was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1998. Dr. Karen Korematsu, Executive Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute will be in conversation with Professor Arnold Jin on the importance of Korematsu 80 years later.

Dr. Karen Korematsu is the Founder and Executive Director of the Fred T.Korematsu Institute and the daughter of the late civil rights icon, Fred Korematsu. Karen is a national speaker and travels the country advocating for civil liberties, social justice, civics, and ethnic studies education. She promotes Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution on January 30 in perpetuity for all fifty states.

Pizza and beverages will be served courtesy of 600 Degrees Pizzeria and Drafthouse. RSVP Requested: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eeP0118JFBkZ3Ey

Co-presented by the Center for Asian American Studies, William Wayne Justice Center for Public Interest Law, The Audre and Bernard Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice and Sissy Farenthold Fund for Peace and Social Justice.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/02/76676/

Please join the Texas Federalist Society for a free lunch and a engrossing debate between Texas Law Professor Jennifer Laurin and Charles Stimson, Deputy Director of the Edwin III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies as they discuss the future of selective criminal prosecution.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/06/76774/

Student representatives from the National Plaintiffs' Law Association, by invitation from the Plaintiffs' Advocacy & Litigation Society (PALS) and The Office of the Dean, will convene on Texas Law's campus for their biannual board meeting.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/09/76086/

Dive into a realm where legal innovation meets visionary storytelling at our upcoming Afrofuturism and the Law symposium! Join us on February 10, 2024, for an enlightening exploration of the intersection between Black culture, history, and futuristic possibilities within the legal landscape!

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/10/76609/

The RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service and the Institute for Transnational Law invite you to join us for a book talk with Dana Brakman Reiser, JD, author of For-Profit Philanthropy: Elite Power and the Threat of Limited Liability Companies, Donor-Advised Funds, and Strategic Corporate Giving.

The book reimagines the history of philanthropy law, revealing it not to be a tool to subsidize private efforts to benefit the public, but a strategic arrangement binding ordinary Americans and elites together in a common purpose. What role do legal reforms and private solutions have in rebuilding public trust in philanthropy?

Brakman Reiser holds a chair as Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and is a globally recognized expert in the law at the intersection of business and charity. The book talk will be followed by a Q&A with the author. Lunch will be provided to registered attendees.

Register at this link: https://events.humanitix.com/shattering-barriers-dana-brakman-reiser

Email any questions to sydney.wilburn@austin.utexas.edu

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/12/76758/

Please join the ALDF for the semester's first Theater Night! This time we will be hosting The Smell of Money. This is a documentary that follows Elsie Herring and her rural North Carolina community as they take on the multibillion-dollar pork industry in a fight for their rights to clean air, pure water, and a life free from the stench of pig feces. All are welcome. Plant-based Japanese food from Nori will be provided. Please register for food here: https://forms.gle/YUPe2Yf4V3koqa7x7

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/12/76732/

Please join the Texas Federalist Society at 12 PM on Thursday, February 15 in TNH 2.139 as Yale University Professor of Law and Political Science Akhil Reed Amar discusses his book The Words That Made Us and explores the biggest constitutional questions confronted by early Americans––and what answers they came to.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/15/76869/

BOA will hold a mock trial with your favorite trial advocacy professors competing. More info TBD.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/15/76534/

The Review of Litigation will host its 2024 Spring Symposium on ESG and Litigation.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/16/75726/

Getting Radical In The South (GRITS) will be hosting eight panels, several trainings and displays, and a keynote speaker on campus over the course of two days.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/17/76166/

Drawing on her work in human and animal research ethics, Dr. Hope Ferdowsian will discuss how starting from clear ethical principles has informed human research policy, and how a similar approach could better inform research policy surrounding the use of animals in research—resulting in improvements in medicine, science, and ethics and greater protections and benefits for people and animals. Join us in-person in TNH 3.125 or online via Zoom (https://utexas.zoom.us/j/92155979467?pwd=MXJncTJ1eVFNVmxJL2FEZlMxdktlZz09) Meeting ID: 921 5597 9467 Passcode: 242422

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/22/76807/

The Texas International Law Journal's Annual Symposium and Banquet will be held on February 24, 2024, and is titled “Current Challenges to the Effectiveness and Future of the International Criminal Court.” The event will consist of three panels, united by a common focus on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and a focus on its efficacy and future. Our event promises to be the preeminent venue for fruitful discussion and disagreement, with new ideas and approaches presented and analyzed from different viewpoints.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/24/75769/

Join Jonathan Haidt (NYU) and Jonathan Rauch (Brookings) for a discussion of the role of the modern university in the formation of knowledge, the importance of heterodox views in that process, and the many modern obstacles in the way.

Visit the link for more information about our speakers and to RSVP to reserve a seat. We hope you join us!

Co-sponsors:

The Athanaeum

The Civitas Institute

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/27/76407/

Please join the Texas Federalist Society at 12:00 on Wednesday, February 28 in TNH 2.139 for a timely debate on whether one of the nation's leading presidential candidates is even constitutionally qualified to hold the Presidency.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/28/77040/

In 2021, the California State Legislature approved a reparations scheme for victims of forced sterilization carried out from 1909-1979. As the window for victims of state-sanctioned forced sterilization to apply for reparations comes to a close in December 2023, an evaluation of the efficacy of the initiative can now be undertaken. One way of evaluating the reparations scheme’s efficacy is through the lens of transitional justice – a theory in international law describing the process and mechanisms through which a state seeks to reform and repair relations with its citizens following a mass human rights abuse, conflict, or political regime change. The California State Legislature is therefore engaging, to a certain extent, in transitional justice by creating the reparations scheme and attempting to address the historical injustice caused to its citizens. In her talk, Helen Jennings will evaluate the extent to which this engagement has been successful, and will suggest lessons from transitional justice that can be applied to California’s reckoning with the legacy of eugenics.

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/29/77051/

Assault & Flattery's annual musical

Full event information: https://law.utexas.edu/calendar/2024/02/29/75345/